Source: Durham Public Library
Source: Durham Public Library
Durham Public Library recently issued the following announcement.
The Capital Crime of Witchcraft with Margo Burns
Tuesday, Oct. 22nd at 6:00 pm
A NH Humanities Council Program.
No registration required.
Open to all!Margo Burns explores an array of prosecutions in seventeenth century New England, using facsimiles of primary source manuscripts, from first formal complaints to arrest warrants, indictments of formal charges to death warrants, and the reversals of attainder and rescinding of excommunications years after the fact; demonstrating how methodically and logically the Salem Court worked.
This program focuses on the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 and 1693, when nineteen people were hanged and one crushed to death, but also examines a variety of other cases against women in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
Original source: http://www.durhampubliclibrary.org/
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